Just a heads up that if you are planning on attending the IDUG North American conference in Dallas which runs from May 18 to May 22 you should register soon. The early registration discount of $200 ends on April 18 so donâ€™t delay (the money you save could be used to buy your favorite blogger a beer :-) If you have ever attended an IDUG event in Dallas in the past you will be pleased to know that this year the conference is at a new location. Rather than being in the middle of nowhere, this year the venue is the Hyatt Regency right in heart of downtown Dallas so not only will you have more time to network with other DB2 professionals you can do so over dinner right in the center of the action. The agenda this year looks great and Iâ€™ll be down there for the full week of activities. Iâ€™ll be giving a presentation on administering your database with the new SQL admin functions which I have blogged about a number of times as well as participating in a number of the networking events. There is even a special interest group on Social Computing where we can discuss topics of interest to you including this blog and how we can all improve our electronic communications. If you are planning on going make sure you donâ€™t miss the discount cut off dateâ€¦itâ€™s only a week away.

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Chris is a Worldwide Technical Sales Specialist for DB2 at IBM primarily focused on planning and strategy for DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows. Chris has been working with DB2 on the LUW platforms for over 21 years.

If you want to cluster for higher levels of availability, then DB2 9 comes with an
integrated cluster manager.
If you are looking to improve performance of complex type workloads by increasing parallelism then look at the
DPF feature of DB2 "